I need some help and advice here!!

[Malikshahzad]

I incubate chicken, duck, goose, and guinea eggs on a regular basis, and also incubate peafowl, turkey, and quail eggs occasionally. I have a lot of experience with incubation. The OP is incubating chicken eggs.



I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're saying?

There's no danger in candling eggs in lockdown, especially when none of the eggs are externally pipped, and none of OP's eggs are.

I m new in incubation , now i am incubation my quail eggs 16 , but today is day 20 but no any chick hatched ?

 

[purdue777]

ok, are u incubation chicken eggs or Quail eggs ?

chicken

 

[sheepwool]

This is my second experience at incubating chicken eggs. The first time I incubated 12 eggs, and out of that had four successful baby chicks. I decided to try it one more time and see if I could do better the 2nd time. This time I bought a fan to circulate the air better, but that is the only difference. I set 14 eggs, and created a countdown chart so I would be able to keep track of the days. Last Friday was day #18, and nothing happened all day, then late last night one baby chick hatched, and at 6 o'clock this morning (day 19), another chick hatched. That makes 12 more that have NOT even started to pip. Should I keep waiting and see what happens, or at this late date should I assume no more will be hatching? I am scared that if I leave the two baby chicks in with the 12 unhatched eggs, that they will be exposed to possible violent exploding of the bad eggs, and probably death. Please help me--I thought I would get a much better rate of hatching this time! I kept the humidity level at around 40-50% throughout until the last three days, and since then it has been betweek 60-72% humidity. The temperature was always 99.3-99.6 degrees, if that helps. Thanks for any advice!

PS: Would it be okay to take the two new chicks out and place them in a nice warm box with a heat lamp, to keep them safe from "exploding eggs"?

I would take the chicks out, and set them up in a "coop in a box" heat lamp, water, feed and leave them alone for a day. If you don't have any pippy, or signs of hatching, candle the eggs. If there is nothing moving by day 23-24, turn everything off, and get rid of the eggs. This is a late season to be hatching, and your fertilization rate may be low. Once we get past August, the hens and cocks are more concerned with putting on a little weight for winter, and not making fertile eggs. Don't give up. It takes a few tries to get it right. A good hatch is 50% success rate, but don't get discouraged. It will get better in the spring.

 

[purdue777]

I would take the chicks out, and set them up in a "coop in a box" heat lamp, water, feed and leave them alone for a day. If you don't have any pippy, or signs of hatching, candle the eggs. If there is nothing moving by day 23-24, turn everything off, and get rid of the eggs. This is a late season to be hatching, and your fertilization rate may be low. Once we get past August, the hens and cocks are more concerned with putting on a little weight for winter, and not making fertile eggs. Don't give up. It takes a few tries to get it right. A good hatch is 50% success rate, but don't get discouraged. It will get better in the spring.

Thanks for the good advice! I am just doing this for fun, and didn't even think about doing it until September, that's why it's so late. I'm kind of scared to try candling the eggs--but I'm going to try now. Is this the correct method: put the eggs on a towel so they won't roll, place a strong flashlight behind the egg and see if there is a mass there with an air pocket at the fat end of the egg? Should it be in a dark room or does it matter? I only know that if there is no mass or veins, it is probably an infertile egg, and I will definitely get rid of those immediately.

 

[Malikshahzad]

I would take the chicks out, and set them up in a "coop in a box" heat lamp, water, feed and leave them alone for a day. If you don't have any pippy, or signs of hatching, candle the eggs. If there is nothing moving by day 23-24, turn everything off, and get rid of the eggs. This is a late season to be hatching, and your fertilization rate may be low. Once we get past August, the hens and cocks are more concerned with putting on a little weight for winter, and not making fertile eggs. Don't give up. It takes a few tries to get it right. A good hatch is 50% success rate, but don't get discouraged. It will get better in the spring.

Thanks

 

[Pyxis]

Thanks for the good advice! I am just doing this for fun, and didn't even think about doing it until September, that's why it's so late. I'm kind of scared to try candling the eggs--but I'm going to try now. Is this the correct method: put the eggs on a towel so they won't roll, place a strong flashlight behind the egg and see if there is a mass there with an air pocket at the fat end of the egg? Should it be in a dark room or does it matter? I only know that if there is no mass or veins, it is probably an infertile egg, and I will definitely get rid of those immediately.

Yep, that's correct! A dark room is best so you can really see what's going on in there, and you want to shine the flashlight through the air cell at the fat end. How did the candling go?

Also, any that look like just a blob with no veins can be removed, since that means they quit earlier in incubation. Look for ones that are dark and take up almost the whole egg aside from the air cell, those are the ones that are still good and might still hatch. If those are alive, you should also be able to see them move a little bit too.

 

[MINDANAO DAVE]

I would candle the eggs then you know for sure if they are viable. There is no problem with doing this at this time. I also incubate eggs 96 at a time. You can also remove the other two and move them to the brooder or box.

 

[igorsMistress]

This is a late season to be hatching, and your fertilization rate may be low. Once we get past August, the hens and cocks are more concerned with putting on a little weight for winter, and not making fertile eggs.

Can you explain this concept to my roo? He would disagree with you